UNC-Chapel Hill alumna named Ertegun Scholar
Jordan Maly-Preuss is one of 18 selected for the elite, University of Oxford graduate program in the humanities
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Undergraduate Education
Exploring silence as a vehicle of deeper thought
Senior Rukmini Deva is a SURF recipient and undergraduate researcher in biology, with a minor in religious studies. Her research focuses on monastic silence — a lifetime of voluntary commitment to silence and/or “stillness.”
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Carolina professor’s research speaks for the trees
UNC-Chapel Hill is home to a professor who is studying and researching trees to better understand climate and weather. Erika Wise is an expert in the field of dendrochronology — the scientific method of dating tree rings.
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Academic adviser awarded fellowship from National Board for Certified Counselors Foundation
Linwood Webster, an academic adviser in UNC-Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a counseling fellowship from the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) Foundation.
Ten years of Maymester
Now in its 10th year, Maymester, which usually begins the Wednesday after Commencement, gives students the opportunity to earn course credit before summer officially begins.
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UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Folt honors 73 students for academic, service leadership
Seventy-three talented and ambitious students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been honored with the University’s most prestigious awards for academic achievement and leadership, the Chancellor’s Award. Chancellor Carol L. Folt presided over the annual Chancellor’s Awards ceremony on April 20, where Executive Vice Provost Ron Strauss, Vice Chancellor for Student
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Six UNC Students Receive Critical Language Scholarships from US Department of State
Six students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study critical needs languages during Summer 2016.
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UNC-Chapel Hill alumna selected for Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program
Tiffany Cox, who double-majored in global studies and public policy and minored in Chinese in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of 20 selected for graduate program focused on Foreign Service preparation.
A helping hand
Improving the quality of life for people far too young to come to campus is the focus of one of Carolina’s newest student organizations. The Helping Hand Project, launched in 2015, features a group of about 40 students who use 3-D printing to make prosthetic devices for children and adolescents born without fingers.
UNC Global announces 2015-16 Global Partnership Award recipients
Launched in Fall 2013, the Global Partnership Awards help UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff and students sustain and develop partnerships with international institutions, with preference given to proposals that include designated UNC strategic or emerging partners.
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